Reagan feud: Michael says Ron ‘would sell out’ his father

Radio talk show host Michael Reagan is denouncing his brother Ron for statements, made in the book “My Father at 100,” , that President Ronald Reagan showed early signs of Alzheimer’s Disease while in the White House.

“My brother seems to want (to) sell out his father to sell books,” Michael Reagan said in a weekend Tweet.

Michael Reagan, a conservative radio talk show host, is about to come out with his own book, entitled “The New Reagan Revolution: How Ronald Reagan’s Principles can Restore America’s Greatness.”

Michael Reagan was the adopted son of Ronald Reagan and his first wife, actress Jane Wyman.

In another Tweet, he charges: “Ron, my brother was an embarrassment to his father when he was alive and today he became an embarrassment to his mother.”

But in a previous book of his own, “On the Outside Looking In,” Michael Reagan recounted how his father completely failed to recognize him at high school graduation ceremonies.

He related how the actor walked up, extended his hand, and said: “My name is Ronald Reagan. What’s yours?”

“I’m your son, Mike,” Michael Reagan replied.

In “My Father at 100,” Ron Reagan recalls being alarmed at his father’s performance in the first 1984 presidential debate.

From an interview with Elizabeth Vargas of ABC News: “It wasn’t like oh my God, he doesn’t remember he’s president . . . You know, it was just – I had an inkling something was going on.”

Ron Reagan also writes in his book: “I’ve seen no evidence that my father (or anyone else) was aware of his medical condition while he was in office. Had the diagnosis been made in, say, 1987, would he have stepped down? I believe he would have.”

Ron Reagan has written for Rolling Stone, co-hosted a talk show on MSNBC, and campaigned for stem cell research. He and sister Patti Davis, children of Ronald and Nancy Reagan, have expressed strongly liberal views.

Members of the Reagan family have written about each other with starting candor.

In her book “My Turn,” Nancy Reagan wrote about a romantic encounter between Ron, when he was a teenager, and an older married woman.

Patti Davis, a peace activist, wrote a roman a clef novel entitled Home Front. It depicted a remote, easy-going president and his devoted, ambitious wife who treated their children as political liabilities.